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How will 2022 be remembered? – Politics Weekly UK podcast

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I Want Boris Back

I think it was just, I think it was probably the angriest column I've written all year. The worst thing about it was he didn't even feel real. What made party gate so toxic was that it showed a culture of excess and greed at the top when people were experiencing the exact opposite. In April, party gate clearly became one of the key themes in the local elections in which the conservative party did very badly. We visited Plymouth just before polling day, where we spoke to a woman called Lilz who was having to rely on food banks to get by. She said this: 'So I voted for Boris to be in, and he pretty much kicked me in the head

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